Dubai, February 2010 - Baraka Ventures, a social entrepreneurship and web technology business incubator and advisory services company, announces a Ticketed Events Module, and signs the first customer who will use ticketed events on Zeedna, the software as a service social publishing platform.

The Ticketed Events Module is among several the company announced in the first quarter of 2010. The Zeedna eCommerce module promises full-featured online order and payment processing capabilities.

GolfTTimes.COM revolutionises the way golf courses are searched for, viewed and booked in real-time. Multiple courses can be booked and paid for in mere seconds through an easy to use calendar interface. The site features golf course listings with photos and golf relevant user profiles.

Zeedna is the first middle east based social publishing platform that is well suited for institutions across sectors. The platform promises to take advantage of web 2.0 capabilities of social networking, social media publishing ...

Dubai, October 2009 - Baraka Ventures, a social entrepreneurship and web technology business incubator and advisory services company, the first sponsor of TEDxDubai launched the TEDxDubai.com site on Zeedna, the software as a service social publishing platform.

Visitors can sign-on, connect to other TEDxsters on the community, use micro-blogging to tweet on the TEDxDubai site and on Twitter and blog about their favorite TED speakers.  Organizers can upload videos to their site video library and process event applications online.  The site uses Zeedna’s comment feature enabling users to interact and discuss their opinions on the progress of the event planning. The TED USA team can monitor the activities and excitement for the upcoming event.

Zeedna is the first middle east based social publishing platform that is well suited for institutions across sectors. The platform promises to take advantage of web 2.0 capabilities of social ...

Dubai, September 2009 - Baraka Ventures, a social entrepreneurship and web technology business incubator and advisory services company, today announced that it is releasing Zeedna, a software as a service social publishing platform. Zeedna is the first middle east based social publishing platform that is well suited for institutions across sectors. The platform promises to take advantage of web 2.0 capabilities of social networking, social media publishing and much more.

“The region has 50 million users and is growing at a rate of 1300%. This exceeds the global internet penetration rate of nearly 300%. With so many people online, businesses are wise to use new technologies to enable online marketing.” says Mahmoud Abu-Wardeh, Co-Founder and Managing Director of Zeedna in response to reasons for undertaking the 2 year development process to launch Zeedna. Mr. Abu-Wardeh adds that the power of viral marketing, aka word of mouth ...